Thursday, February 16, 2012

Spring Batch Tutorial (Part 4)

Review

We have just completed our application! In the previous sections, we have discussed how to perform batch processing with Spring Batch. We have also created a Spring MVC application to act as a web interface. In this section, we will build and run the application using Maven, and demonstrate how to import the project in Eclipse.


Running the Application

Access the source code

To download the source code, please visit the project's Github repository (click here)

Preparing the data source

  1. Run MySQL (install one if you don't have one yet)
  2. Create a new database:
    spring_batch_tutorial
  3. Import the following file which is included in the source code under the src/main/resources folder:
    schema-mysql.sql
    This script contains Spring Batch infrastructure tables which can be found in the Spring Batch core library. I have copied it here separately for easy access.

Building with Maven

  1. Ensure Maven is installed
  2. Open a command window (Windows) or a terminal (Linux/Mac)
  3. Run the following command:
    mvn tomcat:run
  4. You should see the following output:
    [INFO] Scanning for projects...
    [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'tomcat'.
    [INFO] artifact org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin: checking for updates from central
    [INFO] artifact org.codehaus.mojo:tomcat-maven-plugin: checking for updates from snapshots
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------
    [INFO] Building spring-batch-tutorial Maven Webapp
    [INFO]    task-segment: [tomcat:run]
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------
    [INFO] Preparing tomcat:run
    [INFO] [apt:process {execution: default}]
    [INFO] [resources:resources {execution: default-resources}]
    [INFO] [tomcat:run {execution: default-cli}]
    [INFO] Running war on http://localhost:8080/spring-batch-tutorial
    Feb 13, 2012 9:36:54 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded start
    INFO: Starting tomcat server
    Feb 13, 2012 9:36:55 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
    INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.29
    Feb 13, 2012 9:36:55 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
    INFO: Initializing Spring root WebApplicationContext
    Feb 13, 2012 9:37:01 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
    INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
    Feb 13, 2012 9:37:01 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
    INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
    
  5. Note: If the project will not build due to missing repositories, please enable the repositories section in the pom.xml!

Access the Entry page

  1. Follow the steps with Building with Maven
  2. Open a browser
  3. Enter the following URL (8080 is the default port for Tomcat):
    http://localhost:8080/spring-batch-tutorial/

Import the project in Eclipse

  1. Ensure Maven is installed
  2. Open a command window (Windows) or a terminal (Linux/Mac)
  3. Run the following command:
    mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0
  4. You should see the following output:
    [INFO] Scanning for projects...
    [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'eclipse'.
    [INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins: checking for updates from central
    [INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins: checking for updates from snapshots
    [INFO] org.codehaus.mojo: checking for updates from central
    [INFO] org.codehaus.mojo: checking for updates from snapshots
    [INFO] artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin: checking for updates from central
    [INFO] artifact org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-eclipse-plugin: checking for updates from snapshots
    [INFO] -----------------------------------------
    [INFO] Building spring-batch-tutorial Maven Webapp
    [INFO]    task-segment: [eclipse:eclipse]
    [INFO] -----------------------------------------
    [INFO] Preparing eclipse:eclipse
    [INFO] No goals needed for project - skipping
    [INFO] [eclipse:eclipse {execution: default-cli}]
    [INFO] Adding support for WTP version 2.0.
    [INFO] -----------------------------------------
    [INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
    [INFO] -----------------------------------------
    
    This command will add the following files to your project:
    .classpath
    .project
    .settings
    target
    You may have to enable "show hidden files" in your file explorer to view them
  5. Open Eclipse and import the project

Conclusion

That's it! We've have successfully completed our Spring Batch application and learned how to process of jobs in batches. We've also added Spring MVC support to allow jobs to be controlled online.

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial. Don't forget to check my other tutorials at the Tutorials section.

Revision History


Revision Date Description
1 Feb 16 2012 Uploaded tutorial and Github repository

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6 comments:

  1. i am getting following exception, it is asking for META-INF/persistence.xml. well i actually also provide that file with the same persistence name, which is "hibernatePersistenceUnit" but i am getting the following exception while running the server -


    2012-09-16 07:35:38.639::WARN: Nested in org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.dao.annotation.Persi
    stenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor#0': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bea
    n with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/spring-data.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalA
    rgumentException: No persistence unit with name 'hibernatePersistenceUnit' found:
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No persistence unit with name 'hibernatePersistenceUnit' found
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.persistenceunit.DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.obtainPersistenceUnitInfo(DefaultPersistenceUnitManager.java:393)
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.determinePersistenceUnitInfo(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:244)
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.createNativeEntityManagerFactory(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:196)
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:308)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1514)


    Please Help!!

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  2. Hi Mark,

    thank you for this tutorial. Works flawlessly and it helped me getting started with Spring Batch.

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  3. Hi,

    I got this error in pom.xml :

    Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: com.mysema.maven:maven-apt-plugin:1.0:process (execution: default, phase:
    generate-sources)

    I did mvn clean

    but still does not work.

    Please your help is appreciated.
    thanks

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    Replies
    1. Just update the maven-apt-plugin to version 1.0.4 in the pom.xml

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